CHAPTER 8 Manage Alarms This chapter contains the procedures for viewing and managing the alarms and conditions on a Cisco ONS 15454. Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) detects and reports alarms generated by the Cisco ONS 15454 and the Optical Networking System (ONS) network. You can use CTC to monitor and manage alarms at a card, node, or network level. You can also view alarm counts on the LCD front panel. Before You Begin This section lists the chapter procedures (NTPs). Turn to a procedure for applicable tasks (DLPs). 1. NTP-A195 Document Card, Node, and Network Provisioning, page 8-2 Complete this procedure as needed to print or export node data. 2. NTP-A196 View Alarms, History, Events, and Conditions, page 8-2 Complete this procedure as needed to see alarms and conditions occurring on the node and a complete history of alarm and condition messages. 3. NTP-A68 Delete Cleared Alarms from Display, page 8-3 Complete this procedure as needed to delete cleared alarm information. 4. NTP-A69 View Alarm-Affected Circuits, page 8-4 Complete this procedure as needed to find circuits that are affected by a particular alarm or condition. 5. NTP-A70 View Alarm Counts on the LCD for a Node, Slot, or Port, page 8-5 Complete this procedure as needed to see a statistical count of alarms that have occurred for a slot or port. 6. NTP-A71 Create, Download, and Assign Alarm Severity Profiles, page 8-6 Complete this procedure as needed to change the default severity for certain alarms, to assign the new severities to a port, card, or node, and to delete alarm profiles. 7. NTP-A168 Enable, Modify, or Disable Alarm Severity Filtering, page 8-7 Complete this procedure as needed to enable, disable, or modify alarm severity filtering in the Conditions, Alarms, or History screens at the node or network level. 8. NTP-A72 Suppress Alarms or Discontinue Alarm Suppression, page 8-7 Complete this procedure as needed to suppress reported alarms at the port, card, or node level and to disable the suppress command to resume normal alarm reporting. 9. NTP-A258 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm Interface Controller International, page 8-8 Complete this procedure as needed to provision external alarms and controls on the Alarm Interface Controller-International (AIC-I) card. 8-1
NTP- A195 Document Card, Node, and Network Provisioning NTP-A195 Document Card, Node, and Network Provisioning Required/ Use this procedure to print card, node, or network CTC information in graphical or tabular form on a Windows-provisioned printer. This procedure is useful for network record keeping and troubleshooting. A printer connected to the CTC computer by a direct or network connection Chapter 4, Turn Up a Node Retrieve or higher Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62 at the node where you want to record or save data. If you are already logged in, continue with., complete the DLP-A531 Print CTC Data task on page 22-31., complete the DLP-A532 Export CTC Data task on page 22-33. NTP-A196 View Alarms, History, Events, and Conditions Use this procedure to view current or historical alarms and conditions for a card, node, or network. This information is useful for monitoring and troubleshooting hardware and software events. Provisioning Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62 at the node that contains the alarms you want to view. If you are already logged in, continue with. Complete the DLP-A390 View Alarms task on page 20-97 as needed. Complete the DLP-A517 View Alarm or Event History task on page 22-9 as needed. Complete the DLP-A111 Changing the Maximum Number of Session Entries for Alarm History task on page 18-1 as needed. Complete the DLP-A112 Display Alarms and Conditions Using Time Zone task on page 18-2 as needed. Complete the DLP-A113 Synchronize Alarms task on page 18-3 as needed. Complete the DLP-A114 View Conditions task on page 18-3 as needed. 8-2
NTP- A68 Delete Cleared Alarms from Display NTP-A68 Delete Cleared Alarms from Display Use this procedure to delete Cleared (C) status alarms from the alarms window or transient messages from the CTC History window. Retrieve or higher Step 5 Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62. If you are already logged in, continue with. To delete cleared node-level alarms: a. In the node view, click the Alarms tab. b. Click Delete Cleared Alarms, referring to the following rules: If the Autodelete Cleared Alarms check box is checked, an alarm disappears from the window when it is cleared. If the Autodelete Cleared Alarms check box is not checked, an alarm remains in the window when it is cleared. The alarm appears white in the window and has a Clear (C) severity. The alarm can be removed by clicking the Delete Cleared Alarms button. This action removes any cleared ONS 15454 alarms from the Alarms tab. The rows of cleared alarms turn white and have a C in their status (ST) column. To delete cleared card-level alarms: a. In the node view, double-click the card graphic for the card you want to open. b. Click the Alarms tab and then click Delete Cleared Alarms, referring to the note in. To delete cleared network-level alarms: a. In the node view click View > Go to Network View. b. Click the Alarms tab and then click Delete Cleared Alarms, referring to the rules in. To remove the transient messages from the History window, click Delete Cleared Alarms. Transient messages are single messages, not raise-and-clear pairs (that is, they do not have companion messages stating they are cleared). 8-3
NTP- A69 View Alarm-Affected Circuits NTP-A69 View Alarm-Affected Circuits Use this procedure to view all circuits, if any, that are affected by an alarm or condition. NTP-A196 View Alarms, History, Events, and Conditions, page 8-2 Retrieve or higher Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62. If you are already logged in, continue with. In the network, node, or card view, click the Alarms tab or Conditions tab and then right-click anywhere in the row of an active alarm or condition. The node view is the default, but you can also navigate to the Alarms tab in the network view or card view to perform. The Select Affected Circuit option appears on the shortcut menu (Figure 8-1). Figure 8-1 Select Affected Circuits Option Left-click or right-click Select Affected Circuits. 8-4
NTP- A70 View Alarm Counts on the LCD for a Node, Slot, or Port The Circuits window appears with the affected circuits highlighted. If you want to search for particular circuits, see the DLP-A131 Search for Circuits task on page 18-14. NTP-A70 View Alarm Counts on the LCD for a Node, Slot, or Port Use this procedure to view an alarm summary for a node, slot, or port without using CTC. Onsite Step 5 Step 6 If you want to view the entire alarm summary for the node, press either the Slot button or Port button on the LCD panel until Node appears on the LCD. You will also see the direction, Status=Alm Ct. This means that if you press the Status button at this time, as directed in, you will see an alarm count for the node. Press the Status button to see a summary of alarms and severities for the node. You will see a message similar to Alm CT: 2: MJ:2 MN:2, meaning that there are two Critical alarms, two Major alarms, and two Minor alarms. If you want to see alarm counts for a particular slot, such as the alarms for an OC-3 card in Slot 2, press the Slot button until you see Slot-3 on the LCD. You will see the direction, Status=Alm Ct. Press the Status button to see a summary of alarms and severities against the slot. For example, you might see Slot-3 Alm CT:0 MJ:1 MN:2. This means that there are no Critical alarms, one Major alarm, and two Minor alarms against the slot. If you want to view the alarms against a port on the card, such as Port 3 of the OC-3 card you viewed previously, press the Port button until you see Port-3 Status=Alm Ct. Press Status to view alarm count against the port. You will see a message similar to Port-3 Alm CT:0 MJ:1 MN:0. This means that there is one Major alarm against this port. Figure 8-2 shows the shelf LCD panel. Figure 8-2 Shelf LCD Panel Slot FAN FAIL Status Port CRIT MAJ MIN 8/18/03 04.06-002L-10 24 C 97758 8-5
NTP- A71 Create, Download, and Assign Alarm Severity Profiles To return to the previous view from the Port screen, continue to press Port until the display cycles through all the ports on the slot. For instance, on the OC-3 card, press Port until it cycles past Slot 4 and you see Slot. To return to the node menu from the Slot screen, press Slot until you cycle through all the slots and see Node. If you do not press any buttons, the LCD will return to its default display with the node name. However, if you did not cycle through the options to return to the node status, you will see the slot or port where you last checked status. A blank LCD results when the fuse on the alarm interface panel (AIP) board has blown. If this occurs, contact your next level of support. For information, see the Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request section on page lxii. NTP-A71 Create, Download, and Assign Alarm Severity Profiles Use this procedure to create a customized alarm profile at the network, node, or card level. This procedure also provides links to tasks that describe how to assign custom severities individually to each port, card, or node, and to delete alarm profiles. Provisioning or higher Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62 at the node where you want to create an alarm profile. If you are already logged in, continue with to create, clone or modify an alarm profile, or go to to download an alarm profile. Complete the DLP-A518 Create a New or Cloned Alarm Severity Profile task on page 22-11. This task clones a current alarm profile, renames the profile, and customizes the new profile. Complete the DLP-A524 Download an Alarm Severity Profile task on page 22-21. This task downloads an alarm severity profile from a CD or a node. After storing a created or downloaded alarm profile, you must go to the node (either by logging into it or clicking on it from the network view) and activate the profile by applying it to the shelf, one or more cards, or one or more ports. As necessary, complete the DLP-A519 Apply Alarm Profiles to Ports task on page 22-14 or the DLP-A117 Apply Alarm Profiles to Cards and Nodes task on page 18-5. Step 5 As necessary, complete the DLP-A520 Delete Alarm Severity Profiles task on page 22-16. 8-6
NTP- A168 Enable, Modify, or Disable Alarm Severity Filtering NTP-A168 Enable, Modify, or Disable Alarm Severity Filtering Use this procedure to start, change, or stop alarm filtering for one or more severities in the Alarms, Conditions, and History windows in all network nodes. Retrieve or higher Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62 at the node where you want to enable alarm severity filtering. If you are already logged in, continue with. As necessary, complete the DLP-A225 Enable Alarm Filtering task on page 19-17. This task enables alarm filtering at the card, node, and network views for all nodes in the network. Alarm filtering can be enabled for alarms, conditions, or events. As necessary, complete the DLP-A521 Modify Alarm, Condition, and History Filtering Parameters task on page 22-17 to modify the alarm filtering for network nodes to show or hide particular alarms or conditions. As necessary, complete the DLP-A227 Disable Alarm Filtering task on page 19-18 to disable alarm profile filtering for all network nodes. NTP-A72 Suppress Alarms or Discontinue Alarm Suppression Use this procedure to prevent alarms from being reported for a port, card, or node in circumstances when an alarm or condition is known to exist but you do not want to include it in the display. This procedure also provides a link to a task that explains how to resume normal alarm reporting by discontinuing the suppression. Provisioning or higher 8-7
NTP- A258 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm Interface Controller International Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62. If you are already logged in, continue with. Complete the DLP-A522 Suppress Alarm Reporting task on page 22-19 to enable the node to send autonomous messages that clear specific raised alarms and cause suppressed alarms to appear in the Conditions window. Suppressing one or more alarms prevents them from appearing in Alarm or History windows or in any other clients. The suppress command causes CTC to display them in the Conditions window with their severity, their severity color code, and service-affecting status. Complete the DLP-A523 Discontinue Alarm Suppression task on page 22-20 to discontinue alarm suppression and resume normal alarm reporting. NTP-A258 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm Interface Controller International Use this procedure to create external (environmental) alarms and external controls for the AIC-I card. An AIC-I card must be installed in Slot 9. NTP-A323 Verify Card Installation, page 4-2 Provisioning or higher The AIC-I card alarm provides direct alarm contacts (external alarm inputs and external control outputs) routed through the backplane to wire-wrap pins accessible from the back of the shelf. If you install an Alarm Expansion Panel (AEP), the AIC-I alarm contacts cannot be used. Only the AEP alarm contacts can be used. For further information about the AEP, see the NTP-A119 Install the Alarm Expansion Panel procedure on page 1-13 and the NTP-A120 Install an External Wire-Wrap Panel to the AEP procedure on page 1-17. For information about the AIC-I alarms, controls, and virtual wires, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 Reference Manual. Verify the backplane wiring using the following substeps. If you are using the AEP, see the NTP-A119 Install the Alarm Expansion Panel procedure on page 1-13. Otherwise, see the NTP-A8 Attach Wires to Alarm, Timing, LAN, and Craft Pin Connections procedure on page 1-16 for information about the ONS 15454 backplane pins. a. For external alarms, verify that the external device relays are wired to the ENVIR ALARMS IN backplane pins. 8-8
NTP- A258 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm Interface Controller International Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 b. For external controls, verify that the external device relays are wired to the ENVIR ALARMS OUT backplane pins. Complete the DLP-A60 Log into CTC task on page 17-62. If you are already logged in, continue with. In the node view, double-click the AIC-I card on the shelf graphic. The card view appears. Click the Provisioning > Card tabs. In the Alarm Contacts area, click the Add Extension radio button if you are using the AEP. Clicking this option will choose the External Alarm input/output type and the AEP extension type; it will give you access to 16 external alarm contacts. If you did not click Add Extension, in the Input/Output area, choose either External Alarm or External Control. (External Alarm will limit your input/output options as explained in Step 5.) Choosing External Control will enable both external alarms and external controls. This will convert four of the external alarm contacts to external controls, leaving 12 available external control contacts. The extension type for both options is AEP. Click Apply. To add User Defined Alarm Types, complete the DLP-A580 Create User Defined Alarm Types task on page 22-92. If you are not adding User Defined Alarm Types continue with Step 9. If you are provisioning external alarms, click the External Alarms tab (Figure 8-3). If you are not provisioning external alarms, skip Steps 10 through 12 and go to 3. Figure 8-3 Provisioning External Alarms on The AIC-I Card 0 For external alarms, complete the following fields: Enabled Check the check box to activate the fields for the alarm input number. Alarm Type Choose an alarm type from the drop-down list. 8-9
NTP- A258 Provision External Alarms and Controls on the Alarm Interface Controller International 1 2 3 4 5 Severity Choose a severity from the drop-down list. The severity determines the alarm s severity in the Alarms and History tabs and determines whether the LEDs are activated. Critical (CR), Major (MJ), and Minor (MN) alarms activate the LEDs. Not Alarmed (NA) and Not Reported (NR) do not activate LEDs, but do report the information in CTC. Virtual Wire Choose the virtual wire number from the drop-down list to assign the external device to a virtual wire. Otherwise, do not change the default. For information about the AIC-I virtual wire, see the Alarm Monitoring and Management in the Cisco ONS 15454 Reference Manual. Raised When From the drop-down list, choose the contact condition (open or closed) that triggers the alarm. Description A default description is provided; enter a different description if needed. To provision additional devices, complete 0 for each additional device. Click Apply. For external controls, click the External Controls tab and complete the following fields for each control wired to the ONS 15454 backplane: Enabled Check this check box to activate the fields for the alarm input number. Control Type Choose the control type from the drop-down list: air conditioner, engine, fan, generator, heat, light, sprinkler, or miscellaneous. Trigger Type Choose a trigger type: a local Minor, Major, or Critical alarm; a remote Minor, Major, or Critical alarm; or a virtual wire activation. Description Enter a description. To provision additional external controls, complete 3 for each device. Click Apply. When you provision an external alarm, the alarm object is ENV-IN-nn. The variable nn refers to the external alarm s number, regardless of the name you assign. Environmental alarms that you create (and name) should be recorded locally for the NE. Both the Alarm name and resolution are node-specific. 8-10